Trust by Hernán Díaz... part of my long term project to read all of the NYT's 100 best books of the 21st century, which will only get longer as they update the list each year ;)

Great selection by Santa! I just read Gardens of the Moon this month... after buying it in 2014 - It doesn't make itself easy to follow initially, but what a book!

No doubt including great subjects like "The bits of History that don't make me uncomfortable" and "Art, but only using the colour white"

Just checking, is this the same John Key who said Trump should win the US election because he'd be better for their economy? Beginning to question the story that's been told for years that he's some sort of economic wunderkind.

Scrum is also a weird term for someone like me from a rugby playing nation... To me a scrum is an event where two sides push against each other to try and force their will/advantage over the best efforts of their opponent.

"Going forward" - Too often I head things like "We need to figure out how to deal with this going forward" and my thought is always "what else were we going to do, figure out how to change the past?"

I'm always torn by comments like this from the NACT First types... not by whether I think it's a good plan or not, but by whether they're dumb enough to think punishment is the only sensible approach to any situation or if it's purely performative cruelty meant to appeal to their base.

I also like the constant reference to "Shane Jones' wife" to frame her as some sort of innocent bystander... rather than "NZ First Board Member Dot Jones"

Despite not getting the highest rating as I read them, highlights for the month have to be Gene Wolfe's Shadow and Claw... think they'll need a second read to really make complete sense of. Also looking forward to the recently released sequel to My Father's House, The Ghosts of Rome 🖋️📚💙 #pukapuka

Can we get an alcohol interlock put on Hegseth's phone?

Some highlights from February include: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin and Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield 💙📚 #pukapuka